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The Revolutionized Atomic Bomb - Online Term Paper

The Revolutionized Atomic Bomb

Tyler Morgan
Ms.Bennett
History 3B
March 25[th], 2012

The Revolutionized Atomic Bomb

Have you ever seen anything get complete demolished? Completely vaporized by something so power powerful that it brought a war to its end? What about thousands of people being turned into white powder in a matter of seconds along with half a city? Well that's exactly what happened at 8:15 on August 6[th], 1945, when a B2- bomber plane named the Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" (The Atomic Bomb with 12.5 kilotons of TNT) on the people of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb destroyed anything in a 1.5 radius to where it was dropped. The death total from this ranged from 100,000 to around 200,000 with almost ...

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its brother "Little Boy". "Fat Man" had packed into it 22 kilotons of TNT and thought to have much more destructive power then its brother. Then, at 11:02on August 9[th], 1945 (Only 3 days after "Fat Man") the bomb found its target, Nagasaki. This had the same devastating effect on Nagasaki as it did on Hiroshima, killing around 150,000 people. Japan's only chose was to surrender to the US, which led to the end of World War 3.

But in the words of Harry Truman regarding to the atomic bomb, "it seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful..."Because of the atomic bomb people in America and Japan suffered, but it did have a positive effect on society by helping to end Would War II and creating a revolution in warfare.

So how did the Manhattan project get started up? When Albert Einstein wrote then President Franklin D. Roosevelt a letter concerning the creation and use of the greatest bomb the world had ever seen (atomic bomb), the ...

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Category: American History
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